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Nunavut economic development Rough Draft
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Nunavut must enter the industrial era, and it must do so on its own. In the eyes of the free market Nunavut is not a nation, but a strip mine. Any private investment in Nunavut will be in extraction, and once the resources are exhausted Nunavut will be left with nothing but glass beads. For Nunavut to enter the industrial era, investment must be made in PRODUCTION. The ore mined in Nunavut must be smelted in Nunavut, forged in Nunavut, made into machines, vehicles, and BUILDINGS. Nunavut must solve its own housing crisis by building its own housing using its own ore.

Japan did not wait for the free market to turn it from an agricultural society into a powerful industrialized nation. The government itself bought factories and shipped them to Japan. The Meijing Emperor used state funds to force Japan to industrialize , just as Nunavut must do so now.

Wind Turbines can generate electricity to power smelters to refine ore into metal to make wind turbines, but this cycle can only begin by the government starting it itself. Nunavut cannot demand autonomy at the same time that it requires a billion dollars a year in aid. Only by investing state funds in building PRODUCTION can Nunavut ever achieve autonomy. And in creating its own autonomy, Nunavut will find that it has many friends, thousands of skilled individuals who long for a frontier to colonize.

An Arcology.

A single building containing housing, factories, parks and greenhouses.

An entire city of 20,000 within a single dwelling.

Several mining vehicles would start on an iron mine and a limestone quarry. A microsmelter would be shipped up, and powered by a few wind turbines. The steel would be extruded into beams, and welders would begin constructing the Arcology. First to contain the workers, then to contain the smelter. A factory floor to build more turbines and more smelters. 3d printers shipped up to make special parts. As the power generation capacity of Nunavut increases in step with its metal production, the speed of the Arcology's construction speeds up as well. Hydroponic greenhouses, artificially illuminated by electricity generated from the turbines, begin growing fresh produce year round. With every step, Nunavut becomes less dependent on the outside world in order to sustain modern living.

To bring Nunavut to the industrial era will require rethinking almost every aspect of industry itself. Power from wind turbines is unreliable, and so factories and machinery must be able to function when power is available and go into standby when power is scarce. Using anonymous electronic voting, direct democracy can be used to manage the program without having a specific decision maker. Workers will be compensated in both cash, but also in partial ownership in society itself. Both the technical advisors brought in from the south and the Nunavut laborers will become shareholders in the new city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_restoration
http://twistedsifter.com/2009/10/gasometers-of-vienna/

October 20, 2009 | 5:14 PM Comments  0 comments

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